Pendleton

Pendleton's road to office began in a sales job. After the Civil War he spent ten years as a traveling salesman for a Dallas implement company, married Helen Embree of Belton in 1870, and lived briefly at Old Howard and then at Pendleton in 1881 and 1882 before moving to Temple. The Handbook says the 1890 ticket with James S. Hogg courted farmers. In 1904 he presented a minority platform report favoring state control of interstate corporations and an inquiry into Senator Joseph Bailey and Standard Oil. A stroke killed him in 1913, before an expected postmaster appointment.

What the plaque says

Pendleton Called Pendletonville in 1880's; renamed 1904 for local resident George C. Pendleton (1845-1913), State Representative, 1883-1889 (House Speaker, 1886-1887). As Lieutenant Governor, 1891-1893, became first elected official to preside over both legislative houses. U. S. Congressman, 1893-1897. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 7.0 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.
• Mother Neff State Park — 12 mi
  A Leon River park that grew from six acres Isabella Neff left the state in her 1921 will, where Civilian Conservation Corps Company 817 built a stone tower, a pavilion and roads in the 1930s.
• Armstrong Browning Library — 28 mi
  A three-story Italian Renaissance library on the Baylor campus built to hold A. J. Armstrong's Browning collection, dedicated in December 1951 and now, by its own account, the world's largest of Browning material.
• Dr Pepper Museum — 28 mi
  The 1906 bottling plant of the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company, built where Dr Pepper outgrew a Waco drugstore soda fountain, now the Dr Pepper Museum.

More markers nearby

• Cultural Activities Center — 5.0 mi
• Bird Creek Indian Battle — 5.6 mi
• Claudia Potter, M.D. — 5.9 mi
• Cyrus Maxwell Campbell — 5.9 mi